Cairo

Alexandria

Egypt's second largest city (3.5 million people), its largest seaport and the country's window onto the Mediterranean Sea. No city in Egypt has history as rich as that of Alexandria which witnessed so many historic events and legends!

Luxor

Aswan

Aswan is the 3rd largest city in Egypt and the biggest in Upper Egypt. Aswan was the ancient Egyptians' gateway to Africa. Today Aswan is major stop for may Nile cruise ships depart from Luxor to Aswan everyday.

Sharm Elsheikh

Sharm is the the jewel of Egyptian tourism industry now. The city offer some of the finest places for diving and snorkeling in the world, it offers great value for money if compared with many diving spots in the world.

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The city of Taba - Sinai

Taba is
a paradise of deluxe holiday resorts, Taba
overlooks the legendary beautyof the Red
Sea on Egypt's famed "Riviera," the Gulf of
Aqaba.
There is not much to do outside the resort
hotels just a few shops, restaurants plus a
championship golf course and a free shuttle
bus that runs between the hotels... But
slowly and surely more shops and restaurants
are opening up each year. So if you enjoy
lazing by the pool or on the beach with your
family and friends, and a quiet drink of an
evening this is the ideal place for you. If
you have visited Egypt before, but were put
off by the constant hassle of touts and
beggars. Taba will seem like a breath of
fresh air.

The small town of Taba is
located at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba
between the mountains and plateau of Eastern Taba from one side and the water of the Gulf
of Aqaba from the other side. Taba is
located 240 kilometers to the North of the
famous resort of Sharm El Sheikh. The town
has a very strategic position near the
borders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israeli
which borders are located on the edge of the
City of Taba.

The city of Taba has a rich modern history
and the city’s history started in 1892 when
Khedive Tawfiq died and the Ottoman rulers
in Istanbul had to assign Abbas Helmy ll to
rule Egypt. The Sultan Abdel Al Hamid ll
wanted to lessen the British presence in
Egypt so he gave orders, or a Faraman, to
prevent Egypt from having shores on the Gulf
of Al Aqaba. This issue was called the
“Farman”. This issue was over when Topkapı
Palace gave its orders to give Egypt exact
Eastern borders with Rafah at the North and Taba at the South.

The Ottoman rulers wanted to put a number of
soldiers and two canons in the location of
the modern city of Taba nowadays. However,
the Ottomans had to go back on this.
Afterwards, the British authorities decided
to draw exact borders of Egypt and off
course it included Taba and its shores.

In 1922 after England declared Egypt as an
independent state in the declaration of the
28th of February, the borders of Egypt that
included Taba took its international
legality.

After the Tripartite Aggression, England,
France, and Israel, was out of Egypt in
1956, a peace treaty was signed between
Egypt and Israel with the supervision of the
United Nations. This treaty noted that the
Israeli borders end at the city of Taba which was included in the Egyptian borders.

When the war of 1967 broke down and the
Israelis took control of Sinai they took
control of Taba as well. When the Egyptians
took back the control over Sinai, they were
able only to take certain parts of the Sinai
that didn’t include Taba.

In 1979, the former Egyptian president,
Anwar Al Sadat, singed the Camp David treaty
that asked Israel to get out of Taba. In
1982, Egypt took control over all Sinai,
except Taba which was the last city that
Egypt took from Israel in 1989 after a lot
of political negotiations that the Egyptian
president, Hosny Mubarak, had with Israeli
authorities and the United Nations as well.

Nowadays, Taba has growing touristic
attention because of its nature that
contains two small inner gulfs, a number of
lakes, and an island. This enabled the
Egyptian government and foreign and local
businessmen to build a lot of resorts there.

The investment of the Egyptian government in
Taba exceeded 900 million Egyptian pounds in
infrastructure projects that included
establishing roads building houses. It also
included a full sanitation line and a
telephone landline. The foreign investment
in Taba exceeded 3 billion pounds with a lot
of resorts, diving centers, and hotels. The
Egyptian government also built the Naqb
Airport near Taba that gave the chance to
tourists to come to Taba and the nearby
cities easily.

One of the main features of Taba is the
Hilton Taba resort
with all its facilities which was built by
the Israelis and then sold to the Egyptians
after they took control of the city in 1989.

In 1988, Taba and
the area around it were included in the
protected area of Sinai to safeguard this
amazing beautiful spot in Egypt. This area
also includes the colored valley that was
the result of an ancient river that passed
through it in ancient times. One of the
valleys around the colored valley has
historical inscriptions that go back to the
Nabatean times and the Roman times as well.

The Taba Museum

This small museum contains three halls that
display around 700 pieces of antiquities
that demonstrates the story of the people South Sinai from the Pheronic era until
today. The museum opens from 9 in the
morning till 4 at noon.

The castle of Saladin

It is located 10 kilometers away from the
city of Al Aqaba, 250 meters away from the
Egyptian borders. This castle has a
significant strategic and historical
importance as it is located near the borders
of four countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Jordon, and Israel, or Palestine.
Furthermore, the castle was built by Saladin
Al Ayoby in 1171 AD to protect Egypt against
the attacks of the crusaders coming from
Europe.

The citadel contained a lot of defense means
like a huge wall that surrounds all over and
a number of monitoring towers. There is also
an oven to manufacture weapons, a conference
hall for the rulers to plan how to defend
Egypt against any attacks, housing for
soldiers, an oven to bake bread, storage
rooms, water reservoir, and a mosque that
was built by Amir Hossam El Dine Bagel. The
citadel was built with granite rocks that
were taken from the Pharos Island where the
citadel was built.

Saladin was successful in choosing the
location of his citadel on a top of two high
hills with a narrow valley between them
which made very difficult to attack it,
especially with two defense lines: the outer
wall that the surround the castle and an the
inner walls of the citadel itself.